storySouth and its editor Jason Sanford have announced the ten finalists for its Million Writers Award, which honors fiction published online in 2008. The award features a $500 prize—with a $200 runner-up prize, and a $100 honorable mention—for the winner of the public vote (which closes 17 June 2009). The award looks at all fiction, but there are several genre stories among the finalists.
The finalists are:
“Grief Mongers” by Sefi Atta (first published in Per Contra Fiction)
“The Tale of Junko and Sayuri” by Peter S. Beagle (Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show)
“The Whale Hunter” by Steinur Bell (Agni)
Intertropical Convergence Zone” by Nadia Bulkin (ChiZine)
“Fuckbuddy” by Roderic Crooks (Eyeshot)
“Nine Sundays in a Row” by Kris Dikeman (Strange Horizons)
“Every Earth is Fit for Burial” by Cyn Kitchen (Menda City Review)
“No Bullets in the House” by Geronimo Madrid (Drunken Boat)
“Interview with a Moron” by Elizabeth Stuckey-French (Narrative Magazine)
“The Fisherman’s Wife” by Jenny Williams (LitNImage)
We talked more about the award in this article from March, which announced the opening of nominations. In addition to the above final nominees, Sanford lists the other stories making the short list from which the nominees were chosen in this post.